Police ID single mom, 30, fatally stabbed in apartment

Updated 9:07 am, Sunday, September 29, 2013

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Crystal Davis is seen in an undated photo taken Saturday Sept. 28, 2013 from her Facebook page. Davis was found dead in her home Friday, cut and stabbed several times, a San Antonio police spokesman said.

Crystal Davis is seen in an undated photo taken Saturday Sept. 28, 2013 from her Facebook page. Davis was found dead in her home Friday, cut and stabbed several times, a San Antonio police spokesman said.

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Police ID single mom, 30, fatally stabbed in apartment

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SAN ANTONIO – Crystal Davis was never late to pick up her son from school.

When she didn't show up Friday, 10-year-old Mayki Davis and other relatives had a feeling something was wrong.

The school called Mayki's emergency contact, an aunt, who drove him to the two-story apartment in the 1600 block of Hedges Street where Davis, a single mother, and her son had lived for several years.

“I was scared,” Mayki said, adding that he unlocked the front door and went inside.

He wasn't ready to describe what he saw there, hours after he found his mother dead.

According to relatives, police and the Bexar County medical examiner's office, Davis was in an upstairs bedroom, lying in a pool of blood. She had been cut and stabbed several times, a police spokesman said.

Officers at the scene said the apartment had been ransacked and that there was evidence of a struggle.

Police had not named a suspect or made an arrest in the case as of Saturday.

Willie Davis said his sister, one of 10 siblings, was a home health care provider and an extremely devoted mother. She always encouraged him to push himself and “to do something better than San Antonio.”

He now hopes to help raise Mayki, who said he loves school and was extremely close to his mother.

Willie Davis said his sister “was nice, she was the life of the party and she loved her kid,” he said. “(Mayki) had everything he ever wanted.”